stirring

Etymology

adj

1. invigorating or inspiring
   But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention. March 1, 2011, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC
   22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of stir

noun

1. (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
   The reduction takes the central bank back to where it was in December 2005, when it began raising its key rate despite objections from some political figures and many economists about choking the early stirrings of a recovery in growth. January 16 2009, Carter Dougherty, “European Central Bank Cuts Key Rate”, in New York Times